Excerpts from Theodotus 57.1

Summary: The spiritual are formed; the psychic are transferred from slavery to freedom.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:126

Γίνεται οὖν ἐκ τῶν γενῶν τῶν τριῶν τοῦ μὲν μόρφωσις τοῦ πνευματικοῦ, τοῦ δὲ μετάθεσις τοῦ ψυχικοῦ ἐκ δουλείας εἰς ἐλευθερίαν.

From the three kinds, then, there comes the formation of the spiritual, and the transfer of the psychic from slavery to freedom.

Source: Stählin 3:126 · Otto Stählin, ed., Clemens Alexandrinus, vol. 3, Stromata Buch VII und VIII, Excerpta ex Theodoto, Eclogae propheticae, Quis dives salvetur, Fragmente, GCS 17 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1909) · Greek text: Otto Stählin, Clemens Alexandrinus 3 (GCS 17, 1909), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text: As printed in Stählin, GCS 17. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Stählin (1909); made independently of existing English translations.
Topics: Heresy

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 57.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/57/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 57.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/57/1/).